November 2008
Content for this issue will be added, weekly, over the next month and can be downloaded in full as a digital issue at the end of the month.
Editorial
In hot water - p137
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 04 November 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.117
Research Highlights
Sounds in the key of life - p138
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 09 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.106
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Physical effects - p138
Anna Armstrong
Published online: 09 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.107
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Minor disturbances - p138
Alicia Newton
Published online: 16 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.110
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Foreboding forecast - pp138 - 139
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 16 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.111
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Riddle resolved - p139
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 23 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.112
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Taxing the tropics - p139
Anna Armstrong
Published online: 23 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.113
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News Feature
Pre-emptive strike: outwitting extinction - pp140 - 141
A venerable conservation organization predicts how climate change will affect individual species. Will conservationists take pre-emptive action? Emma Marris reports.
Published online: 23 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.114
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Commentary
Standing on the brink - pp142 - 143
Mark C. Serreze & Julienne C. Stroeve
Despite some recovery of the Arctic summer sea ice this year, the signs suggest the transition to a seasonally ice-free Arctic Ocean is underway.
Published online: 09 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.108
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Books and Arts
Pocket IPCC - pp144 - 145
Jay Gulledge
The hefty 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gets a diminutive translation.
Published online: 09 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.109
On our bookshelf: dark visions - pp145 - 146
Anna Barnett
Published online: 30 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.115
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News and Views
When did the icehouse cometh? - pp147 - 148
Stephen F. Pekar
The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide decreased between 45 million and 25 million years ago, a trend accompanied by glaciation at the poles. Modelling results suggest when and where the ice closed in.
Published online: 01 October 2008; doi:10.1038/455602a
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Article originally published in Nature 455
Policy Watch
Canadian election goes against the 'green shift' - pp149 - 150
Canada's voters have rejected the Liberal party's strong environmental platform to re-elect Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Hannah Hoag looks down the road ahead for Canadian climate policy.
Published online: 30 October 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.116
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